Word: keepeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep from our Democracy...
...Ohio, where the State school fund was $17,000,000 in the hole, several cities knew not how long they could keep schools open. School funds were low in Colorado, Michigan, Illinois, the Dakotas. The most desperate S. 0. S. came from schools in Georgia and Pennsylvania...
...because of a State law prohibiting debt carry-overs to the next fiscal year. Unofficial calculations were that 200 Georgia schools, with 20,000 pupils, were closed. In many a Georgia village and town, worried citizens met to talk of ways & means of educating their children. Some decided to keep the public schools open by charging tuition. In Lamar County, white children's school term was shortened to eight months, Negro children's schools were closed. At Villa Rica, a mass meeting raised $2,000 to keep schools open four weeks. Among the contributions: from the Villa Rica...
...planetarium picture of stars in the night sky is breathtakingly spectacular at first sight, monotonous after repetition. Stokley, the greatest showman in planetariana, provides variety to keep planetari-addicts coming in. Three years ago he depicted the "End of the World"-a huge moon drawing close to Earth after millions of years, eventually breaking up and showering Earth with its fragments. Stuffy astronomers were shocked by this fiction but Stokley defended it as a product of imagination "guided by a knowledge of exact facts." This month Fels visitors were treated to an imaginary trip to the present harmless moon-takeoff...
...Federal Reserve and SEC, a degree of financial control far firmer than even the elder J. P. Morgan could mobilize. Thus last week, as official Washington unofficially talked of war within a few days (see p. 15), and as the emotionally exhausted stockmarket fluttered weakly in an attempt to keep up with hourly news from Europe, Government officials busied themselves with plans fof putting the Exchange on a war basis...